Penny Mueller, sustainable garden manager, shares a laugh as she visits with customers while handing out boxes of produce from their NWTC community garden in Green Bay on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013.

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College students are getting back to class and those classrooms, buildings - even their schedule - is a little bit different this time around.

At Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, students will head back to campus a few weeks later than usual this fall.

The community college revised its calendar this year to help students complete programs more quickly and to better accommodate their off-campus lives. Changes include moving from 17-week fall and spring semesters to 15-week sessions, and adding a three-week January session. The school also eliminated spring break and increased its ...